Re: How to optimize routing performance

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 21:35:15 EST

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> >
> > > http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/
> >
> > Unrelated. Fun, but unrelated to networking...
>
> Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however
> under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts
> per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it
> not be relevant?

No.

> Or are you saying that the bottleneck is somewhere
> else completely,

Indeed. The bottleneck is with processing the incoming network
packets, at the interrupt level.

Rik 

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